Next, set up your overlock for the rolled hem: You’ll need three threads and one needle. With this preparation, the rolled hem will look even better! Make sure to practice on a piece of leftover fabric first to get a feeling for how close you can hold the flame to the fabric without it melting or leaving dark soot stains. The flame won’t have to actually touch the fabric – you’ll see that the heat is enough to melt the fibers and the edge will get sealed. We developed a method that requires a steady hand and a lighter: run the flame over the cut edge of the fabric. We had this problem with organza layers of wedding dresses. Sometimes, fabrics fray even though you enclose the edge with a rolled hem. The first tip is especially for polyester fabrics.
How to sew a rolled hem on viscose, chiffon, organza and other lightweight fabrics
You need a little bit of time to adjust the tension, and basic knowledge of adjusting tension on an overlocker.īecause this hem can be a little tricky to sew on lightweight fabrics, I’ll share my tips for how to achieve a neat rolled hem with you. It’s important that the thread tension isn’t too high, or the hem will get twisted. The rolled hem is a narrow hem sewn with three threads that enclose the open edge of the fabric. For the lightweight fabrics, we used the rolled hem setup on an overlocker. One of the daily tasks was shortening and hemming the seams of wedding dresses. As you can imagine, we had to deal with lightweight and sheer fabrics – you gotta be careful when sewing with organza and other fine fabrics. The bernette Funlock 48 has a sewing speed of up to 1300 stitches per minute.When I was working in a bespoke tailor shop, the summers were filled with wedding gowns. The bright LED light provides a well-lit sewing and threading area. The knife is operated from below, which not only ensures a cleanly cut edge, but also safe handling, and it can be adjusted comfortably with one hand. The lower looper and chain looper have a mechanical threader. Colour-coded thread paths make threading easier and in the needle area, a manual threader helps to threading the needles. It has a total of 23 stitches: 15 overlock stitches, 3 coverstitches, 4 combo stitches and 1 chain stitch, overlock stitches with a stitch width of up to 7 mm, coverstitches with stitch widths of 2.8 or 5.6 mm and combo stitches with a stitch width of up to 10 mm. The bernette 48 is the top model of the Funlock series and is a combination of an overlocker and a coverstitch machine.
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